What is the Difference between A webserver(apache) and an application server?

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From: "Varuna Seneviratna" <vswebservers@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:13:14 +0530
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What is the Difference between A webserver(apache) and an application server?

Varuna

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